Hard agree, modding is what makes games fun. What is the point of playing a game that I can't change the rules, the "board" and everything else? What the devs made I see it more as a canvas, a framework, a suggestion.
Exactly. I do this with boardgames too, beyond just "house rules".
For me, Stratego, my favorite chess-esque battle simulator, is a wonderful canvas.
The game becomes infinitely better when players roll for the number of turns each player gets. This simulates the moving "tempo" of war, speeds up the game dramatically depending on the turn multiplier used, and dramatically opens up the types of play available. I've experimented with far more, including custom maps, allowing joint attacks with multiple turns (pooling attack scores), and other mods.
I don't care if this is autism or it turns off normies. The thinkpad user ricing out modded dwarf fortress has a more rewarding time with their videogames compared to macbook pro user playing vanilla skyrim in 2025.
> thinkpad user ricing out modded dwarf fortress has a more rewarding time with their videogames compared to macbook pro user
Ok, now I feel a little bit offended by the bread thing, and also: how can you just assume how rewarding my experience is playing vanilla games? We’ve already established, that you can’t relate to me.
I mean... isn't that the point of dark matter and dark energy? To be a stand-in name for stuff we have to account for but can't detect properly? The dark here means dark as in "we are in the dark about that".
It does not really matter if those exist or are an artifact of current theories, replacing relativity is not that easy and there are already a ton of physicists working on that anyway.
In the meanwhile of either having instruments capable of detecting these or a new theory that demostrates that those are artifact emerge... they have to exist. That's the point of them.
Dark matter does not mean "we are in the dark about this," at all.
It's astronomy. It means "anything that is not shining like a star but we can detect it via inference." Light matter is stars. Dark matter can include MACHOS: neutron stars, black holes, brown dwarfs, rogue planets. No new physics required for MACHOs, as opposed to WIMPs.
Are patents even worth today other than for the medical sector?
Like, lots of things can be covered by copyright anyway. For example there is absolute 0 point in software patents, software is covered by copyright and society does not benefit for covering with patent law the parts that are not covered by copyright as they would be invented anyway, and a patent on non-copyrightable software stuff is the same as not being disclosed to the public as by the time the patent expires, it will most likely be too late, only thing it does is prevent other people from inventing it again, which I think is a worse consequence.
The only sector where I see that patents still make a lick of sense for society is in the pharmaceutical sector as medicines are very expensive to develop and would not be properly covered by copyright.
Maybe it is just me but I just fail to see the point of patents for anything else in the world of today, they are a net negative for society.
> Maybe it is just me but I just fail to see the point of patents for anything else in the world of today, they are a net negative for society.
It's not just you. Most people agree that the current patent system stifles innovation instead of promoting it. They are borderline unenforceable for small players, but make an effective moat (through sheer numbers, not quality) for the incumbents. And let's not even mention patent trolls. The only positive thing about them is that they allow people with strict NDAs to talk about their work, but this is hardly what patents are supposed to be for.
They can theoretically do some good, but the standards would have to be raised by a factor of maybe 100 for that, maybe more.
The reductio ad absurdum of this style of argument would hold that every retailer is a monopoly, because once you walk into the store, you can only buy things from them.
The promise of communism is that the worker owns the means of production, the worker, not the goverment. If the goverment owns your means of production, it's just a corpo disguissed as a country.
